(A Zillion Dollar Comics/Carolyn Hiler)How good are you at adulting? Do you engage in boring, responsible tasks in a timely manner? Or do you watch one more episode of My Little Pony instead of washing the dishes? When y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/28/2014-Word-of-the-Year-Adulting/(Photo: Frank Kovalchek)William Rapaport of the University of Buffalo (naturally) devised the construction in 1972. How can it possibly be correct? First, let's look at the sentence with his original capitalization:Buffa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/10/This-Sentence-Is-Grammatically-Correct-Buffalo-Buffalo-Buffalo-Buffalo-Buffalo-Buffalo-Buffalo-Buffalo/If you're a native Japanese speaker traveling to a... ...you're a native Japanese speaker traveling to an English -speaking country, you might wonder how you will b... ...o conduct business and everyday transactions in a language that is very different from your own. How will yo... ...oduced a phrasebook whic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/07/30/A-Darth-Vader-to-Japanese-Phrasebook/[http://youtu.be/-S-5EfwpFOk] (YouTube link)The be... ...fwpFOk] (YouTube link)The best way to learn a new language , they say, is to go somewhere where that’s... ...ey say, is to go somewhere where that’s the language spoken every day. But not everyone can travel jus... ...erse with a native spea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/08/Language-Exchange-Program-Benefits-Students-and-Teachers/If you're a native English speaker, you may know more Japanese than you thin... ...or example, the word "tycoon" has come to mean in English a wealthy and powerful business leader, such as t... ...l the Meiji Restoration in 1868.This is one of 11 English words of Japanese orig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/23/11-English-Words-That-Were-Originally-Japanese/(USS Kearsarge vs. CSS Alabama by Xanthus Smith)I&... ...Britain would not budge: proper grammar.(Me Fail English t-shirt on sale at the NeatoShop)At that time, Br... ...he NeatoShop)At that time, British conventions of English grammar considered splitting an infinitive a seri... ...atical error. Thomas R. Lo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/13/1871-War-Averted-Between-the-US-and-Britain-When-the-US-Agrees-to-Not-Split-Infinitives/(Image: NeatoFrog T-shirt)It’s “pad kid poured curd pulled cold.”Can you say that? How fast? How fast can you say it 10 times? That was the test developed by psychologists at the Massachusetts Institute...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/10/Researchers-at-MIT-Invent-the-Worlds-Toughest-Tongue-Twister/(Image from the movie Valley Girl, Atlantic Entert... ...earchers were therefore not able to infer similar language patters in older Californians.-via Dave Barry
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/09/Study-California-Men-Are-Increasingly-Talking-in-the-Valley-Girl-Dialect/Joshua David Stein of Wired made a fascinating obs... ...the letter E, long the most common letter in the English language , has lost its prominence in the internet age. Man... ..., is something that has been a feature of written English since Anglo-Saxon times,” said Professor Da... ...t Linguistics. &...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/05/An-Obituary-for-the-Letter-E/In standard English , “because” is a subordinating conjunc... ...is linguistic trend because they tend to condense language . Like Strunk & White’s Rule #17, they e...
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